The MRSEC Facilities Network is a nationwide partnership of NSF supported MRSEC centers designed to provide support to researchers in the broad area of Materials Research in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world.
MRFN Facility Sites
The Materials Research Facilities Network is a nationwide partnership of NSF supported MRSEC centers designed to provide support to researchers in the broad area of Materials Research in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world. NSF MRSEC centers are geographically spread throughout the United States at major research universities which greatly enhances the ability for researchers from other institutions to gain access to the wide array of instrumentation and facilities presently available.
Access to advanced research instrumentation and facilities is widely recognized as a critical aspect for future UScompetitiveness. In the 2007 National Academies Press report, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm”, this was recognized with a specific recommendation and call for action to sustain and strengthen the nation’s traditional commitment to research and to provide for future economic growth. Implicit in this suggested course of action is the need to educate both graduate and undergraduate students in the operation and potential uses of state of the art instrumentation. This will not only enhance the educational experience but greatly enable future research activities. Thus, the MRFN is a response by the MRSEC program to the National Academies report, "Midsize Facilities: Infrastructure for Materials Research", which takes advantage of existing nationally funded instrumentation infrastructures, such as the NNIN (www.nnin.org/) by complementing their initiatives.
The goal of the Facilities Network is to provide users with unprecedented access to instruments, techniques and collaborators in order to enhance their studies of the synthesis, characterization and theory of materials. A major focus of the Facilities Network is to encourage the study of materials and to enable as wide a diversity of researchers access to their cutting-edge tools. The members of the MRSEC Facilities Network are the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Minnesota; University of Wisconsin Madison; Princeton University; Washington University; University of Maryland; University of Pennsylvania;Northwestern; Yale; Carnegie Mellon; and Brown University. Users are invited to submit short proposals requesting access to the state-of-the-art instruments and techniques, and to the highly skilled staff. Limited financial support is available to supplement both the user fees as well as travel costs at all network partners with preference given to undergraduate and minority institutions.
Please direct any questions or comments to mrfn-info @ mrl.ucsb.edu
All funded users are encouraged to use the following statement of acknowledgement:
"We would like to acknowledge theMaterials Research Facilities Network (MRFN) program at (NAME OF UNIVERSITY, CITY), funded by National ScienceFoundation grant (DMR # FROM CENTER), for providing instrumentation support used to obtainmaterials characterization of samples"
unless otherwise directed by the specific MRSEC. Each participant MRFN site will have its own distinct grant number, which can be obtained by directly contacting the P.I.
MRFN Coordinator
Anika A. Odukale MRFN Coordinator
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCSB Materials Research Laboratory
Fax: (805) 893-8797
Rm. 3111, Materials Research Building
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5121
Email: aodukale@mrl.ucsb.edu
MRFN Directors
Professor Craig Hawker
MRFN Director
Director of UCSB Materials Research Laboratory
Phone: (805) 893-7161
Fax: (805) 893-8797
Rm. 3005, Materials Research Building
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5121
Email: hawker@mrl.ucsb.edu
Professor Juan J. de Pablo
UWM MRSEC Director and Howard Curler Distinguished Professor
Phone: 608/262-7727
Fax: 608/262-5434
University of Wisconsin Madison
3018 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1691
Email: depablo@engr.wisc.edu
Professor Timothy Lodge
UMN Facilities Coordinator and Director of UMN Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Phone: (612) 625-0877
Fax:
Rm. 235, Smith Hall
207 Pleasant Street SE, Universty of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: lodge@umn.edu
Professor Thomas P. Russell
UMass Facilities Coordinator and Director of UMass Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Phone: (413)-545-2680
Fax: (413)-577-1510
Room A516, 120 Governors Drive, Conte Research Center
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: russell@mail.pse.umass.edu